Molly Ball Quotes

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.

I have a good face for what I do.

I love body language.

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.

Every man in it is a great man—an orator, a critic, a statesman, and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory, his criticism, and his political abilities. The consequence is that business is drawn and spun out to immeasurable length.

People [in politics] do go on and talk.

A candidate challenging an incumbent president has the advantage [in a debate]. The president of the United States is an awesome figure. Merely to share the platform with him on equal terms is to gain in stature: a good performance will be judged even better.

The … most important thing that happens in a debate is a candidate delivering an effective one-liner. Now, we all know, or should know, that the one-liner has most likely been proposed by the candidate's advisers and that it's been rehearsed. It has all the spontaneity of a can of tuna. And it has nothing to do with governing. It's nice if a president is clever, but that's not required

Whenever we meet opposition, we do not look to see if it is just, but how we can get out of it, rightly or wrongly. Instead of welcoming arms we stretch out our claws.

Gestures matter.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.

I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

It's not just about the words you use, but the way you use them, and the message that puts over. Also your face too and the way you project your message. If you're telling the group to stay calm, be good, and you have beads of sweat dripping down your forehead, you're in trouble.

You just have to look at me to know what I am feeling. So I would be a useless policewoman or spy.